A Lucky Draw.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 4

A Lucky Draw.

The ' New Zealand Herald' relates thefollowing characteristically Colonial anecdote : — ■ - ■■■■'■'■< '"• - ' ' \ We are not certain whether the following ■ maybe looked upon, as .pointing to a moral,/' serving as a caution, or as something which is desirable to be followed as, an example. It has iiOthinjj; whatever of the ideal or the . romantic or the 'abstract about it, but verymuch of the practical. Some time back a, J young man landed on our wharf horn the L Bay of Island. He was in a very despond* [ '•"-'■ ent frame of mind, for he had, in the language of roaoance, courted » young woman .•■- --and the yohn| woman having, warmed up. considerably in his f*your, she/iae young '„' women and old women included have done ' before and wia ? dd^ain t jil^Himi #heti he came, as stated. ? tftf-waaat tb^*ve'ry;K?W at which the female . immigrants were being' - landed from the MUtiades. , The thought ' struck him— a happy; thought it has sinoe turned" out He watched the young women ai they 'filed along the wharf, , uhW- on% • struck his gaze, and seized upon ''his admfra-' tion. He followed her td J ,--the ; ; barraeksi * ' ' ' sought the matron, and aok«id her for ah ; introduction. This granted, he there and then proposed marriage, y -The girl Waa nri-*' ' > able to give an answer that day, but would, ■■_,-■ she said, the next; The^Vpeit day^<ime,V ?;-, and the answer waai f avorable. /> 'jrhe7day r<; ; t i following the clergyman •.had^ader^thD'^.'';, twain one. - > Then ; thCyoifog husband ''tookf ■ "' L biß. wife, back to; tj^pfay-hf Island ;i - :r trodoeed her '.fo^^jyi^^^i^^^ him. And the does she like it any the better -that the - ; coupie'aitrbelbreb^ * day, by whidh .her'dejirp^i^Me^o^ia^-' vent as under other cifcamstances would' haver been the case. The yoiing man says he hat got the beat of wives, arid the young ' .woman declares to posa^ing\the.|be«t of j Jbxubinfa . lptter^ ;the onl^ihd^Klbt not illegal. t . ; Th^ip^nmt girL went Mb"; X and drew but Cprftav ■ T^ - •-"'-• r - : ' *•--■. VV.